cake flour Archives

Butternut recipes

Butternut fritters with milk syrup

15-20 minutes

Bread recipes

Custard cups

45 minutes

Beetroot recipes

Beetroot red velvet cake

30 minutes

Christmas dessert

Individual malva puddings

25 minutes

Bread recipes

Basic ajeen dough

15 minutes

Bread recipes

Man’ouche

15 minutes

Cake recipes

Chocolate lager cake with hot cross bun cream cheese icing

45 minutes

Battered and

Daltjies (chilli bites) for Ramadan

5 - 10 minutes

Bread recipes

Focaccia with honey-roasted grapes

45 minutes

Christmas recipes

Brawn with caraway seed vetkoek

2 1⁄2 hours

Sweet treat

Nectarine clafoutis

35–40 minutes

Christmas recipes

Drunken gravy

40 minutes

Drunken gravy

Serves 6

Difficulty Easy

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cooking Time 40 minutes

Ingredients

200 g Woolworths baby leeks, sliced
1 T olive oil
6 black peppercorns
1/2 cup brandy (optional)
1/2 cup pan juices (from cooking the fillet or gammon)
1/2 lemon, zested
2 - 3 cups gammon cooking liquid or stock, strained
2 T sour cream (optional)

For the roux:

60 g butter
3 T cake flour

Method

1. Fry the leeks in a hot pan drizzled with olive oil. Add the peppercorns and flambé with the brandy.

2. Add the reserved pan juices and lemon zest and reduce by half. Remove from the heat and set aside.

3. Melt the butter in a saucepan, then add the flour and whisk over a low heat until golden brown and slightly nutty.

4. Add the gammon cooking liquid or stock.

5. Strain the pan-juice mixture and discard the leeks.

6. Add to the roux and cook, whisking, until thick. Check the seasoning. Whisk in the sour cream for a creamier finish.

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Photographs: Myburgh Du Plessis
Production: Hannah Lewry
Food Assistant: Claire-Ellen Van Rooyen

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Butternut fritters with milk syrup

Custard cups

Beetroot red velvet cake

Individual malva puddings

Basic ajeen dough

Man’ouche

Chocolate lager cake with hot cross bun cream cheese icing

Daltjies (chilli bites) for Ramadan

Focaccia with honey-roasted grapes

Brawn with caraway seed vetkoek

Nectarine clafoutis

Drunken gravy

Drunken gravy

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